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the head, and the feathers narrowly tipped with grayish white; ab- 

 domen whitish heavily washed with pale tawny on the flanks and 

 under tail coverts. A few of the new white-tipped feathers are 

 coming in on the forehead and crown, and the molt is fairly well 

 advanced on the throat and breast in this young bird. 



The two adults obtained by the Frick expedition are of interest in 

 that they are not quite alike. Thus, the Tana River specimen has all 

 the remiges fuscous-brown, while the bird from the Thika River has 

 some of these feathers broadly tipped with white but not the same 

 remiges in both wings are thus colored. The latter bird also has some 

 grayish-white tips to some of the rectrices as well. It is in fresher 

 plumage than the Tana River bird. 



Van Someren ^* collected a series of adults in fresh plumage, which 

 showed unusual variations. He says : "One * * * j-^^^^g ^ j^^ whole 

 of the breast and abdomen pure white, thus resembling somewhat 

 G. hyfoleucus^ but the upperside is that of typical hindci.''' 



This babbler has a curiously restricted range wholly coincident 

 with, though not so extensive as that of hypoleuca. It has been taken 

 in the Ukamba and South Kenya Provinces, north to the Tana River. 



The measurements of the present two examples are as follows' 

 Wing, 100, 101; tail, 104, 106; culmen, 19.5, 21; tarsus, 34, 34.5 mm. 



ARGYA RUBIGINOSA RUBIGINOSA (Ruppell) 



Crateropus ruMginosa Ruppeix, Systematiscbe Uebersicht der Vogel Nordost- 



Af rika's, p. 47, pi. 19, 1845 : Shoa. 

 Specimens collected: 



5 males, 1 female. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December G-22, 1911. 



1 male. Black Lake Abaya, south, Ethiopia, March 25, 1912. 



1 male, 1 female, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 28-29, 1912. 



12 males, 14 females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 3-May 11, 

 1912. 



1 male, Anole village, Ethiopia, May 18, 1912. 



2 males, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 25-27, 1912. 



2 females, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 3-4, 1912. 



1 female, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 11, 1912. 



1 male, Malata, Ethiopia, June 22, 1912. 



1 female, east of Lake Stefanie, Kenya Colony, April 20, 1912. 



1 male, 18 miles southwest of Hor, Kenya Colony, July 1, 1912. 



2 males, 1 female, Endoto Mountains, south, Kenya Colony, July 21-22, 1912. 

 1 male, 1 female. Northern Guaso Nyiro River, Kenya Colony, August 2, 



1912. 

 1 male, 1 female, Tharaka district, Kenya Colony, August 13, 1912. 



1 female. Tana River, camp 6, Kenya Colony, August 21, 1912. 



2 males, 2 females, junction of Tana and Thika Rivers, Kenya Colony, 

 August 24-25, 1912. 



1 male, 1 female, between Thika and Athi Rivers, Kenya Colony, August 29, 

 1912. 



' Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 233, 1922, and vol. 37, p. 338, 1932. 



